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Volunteer geographic information in the Global South: barriers to local implementation of mapping projects across Africa
(GeoJournal, 2020-04-08)
The world is awash in data—by 2020 it is expected that there will be approximately 40 trillion gigabytes of data in existence, with that number doubling every 2 to 3 years. However, data production is not equal in all places—the global data landscape remains heavily concentrated on English-speaking, urban, and relatively ...
Benefits of crowdsourcing for libraries: A case study from Africa
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2020-09)
Many libraries in the Global South do not collect comprehensive data about themselves, which creates challenges in terms of local and international visibility. Crowdsourcing is an effective tool that engages the public to collect missing data, and it has proven to be particularly valuable in countries in which governments ...